Tom

Experience

Factory OS Customization for Revolution Pi hardware

Aire Energy

Customized Raspberry Pi/Revolution Pi OS images to streamline device deployment for energy producers, including Python-based automation and pre-configured remote access tools.

November 2024 - January 2025

Senior DevOps Engineer

Scania R&D

Scaling containerized applications using AWS Fargate and improving CI/CD pipelines with GitLab. Implemented CI/CD pipeline solutions, automated testing and improved developer experience with robust tooling.

March 2024 - October 2024

System Integrator for Off-Grid RV Solutions

Independent

Integrated solar systems, EcoFlow batteries, and RV infrastructure for sustainable off-grid living. Solved technical challenges related to power inverters and system compatibility.

August 2024 - October 2024

DevOps Engineer

Folksam försäkringar

Infrastructure automation with Ansible, deployed scalable applications on OpenShift, and enhanced CI/CD workflows using GitLab CI. Collaborated on optimizing infrastructure with Ansible and streamlined observability across the stack.

September 2023 - December 2023

DevOps Consultant Engineer

Länsförsäkringar Bank

Migrated from Jenkins to Azure DevOps, refactored a test automation Java Spring Boot app for OpenShift, with an automated build, deploy and release flow from scratch.

January 2023 - August 2023

Site Reliability / Platform Engineer

Scania R&D

Platform Engineer, building an Internal Development Platform for autonomous truck developers

October 2021 - January 2023

Enablement Engineer

Scania R&D

Minimized human labor efforts to automatically detect secrets committed in code; defined metrics standards to unify team SLIs; improved observability and infrastructure automation, achieving a 70% cost optimization on Kubernetes clusters.

December 2020 - October 2021

Development / DevOps engineer

Scania R&D

Built cloud backend services for Scania’s autonomous vehicles, served as Security lead, managed GitLab CI, and maintained monitoring and infrastructure.

January 2019 - December 2020

Cloud Architect/Engineer

Scania IT

Facilitated adoption of AWS greenfield and data center extension accounts using Terraform and Ansible; managed GitLab configurations and coached SAP DevOps technicians.

January 2018 - January 2019

Technical Specialist Linux Server

Scania IT

Managed over 100 RHEV hypervisors and 1400 VMs, automated storage migrations with Python and RHEV APIs, and implemented automation with Ansible and RunDeck.

January 2015 - December 2017

Solutions Architect

RG19

Designed and managed UNIX/Linux services, investigated application interconnections, managed performance troubleshooting, and monitored applications.

January 2014 - January 2015

System Administrator

Mogul Services

Migrated and hardened Swedish Government websites, mitigated DDOS attacks, automated system administration for Sveriges Television, and managed load balancers and databases.

January 2011 - January 2014

Java Application Technician

Memnon Network Applications

Monitored and troubleshooted applications, automated deployments in Jenkins, produced reports, optimized Java applications, and managed infrastructure.

January 2008 - January 2011

Unix Coach

Elan IT

Managed SLA for Ericsson R&D Service Desk, coached and led a team of approximately 20 Service Desk agents and administrators, and handled tactical incident management and escalation.

January 2007 - January 2008

Unix Service Desk Agent

Poolia IT

Supported Ericsson developers with Linux/Unix development environments.

January 2006 - January 2007

Service Desk Agent

HP Ireland

Provided 2nd line support as an analyst.

January 2004 - January 2005

System Administrator

ISD Datasystem

Performed systems administration on various platforms, installed server systems like backup and email systems.

June 2000 - January 2004

Skills

Cloud Platforms
  • AWS
  • OpenStack
DevOps & Automation Tools
  • ArgoCD
  • Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • Crossplane
  • Lambda
  • Selenium
  • Serverless Framework
Incident Management & Monitoring
  • DataDog
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Incident Escalation
  • SLA Management
Containerization & Orchestration
  • ArgoCD
  • Docker
  • Fargate ECS
  • Helm
  • Kubernetes
  • OpenShift
Configuration Management & Infrastructure as Code
  • Ansible
  • CloudFormation
  • Heat Stacks
  • Kustomize
  • Terraform
CI/CD Tools
  • Azure DevOps Pipelines
  • GitHub Pipelines
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
Linux & Embedded Systems
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Revolution Pi
  • Custom Linux OS images
  • Cross-compilation
  • Customized Bootable Debian ISO images
Programming & Scripting Languages
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Perl
  • Java
Monitoring & Observability
  • Blackbox Exporter
  • DataDog
  • Grafana
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
Version Control & Repositories
  • Git
  • Subversion
  • Nexus
Automation & Scripting Tools
  • RunDeck
  • Serverless Framework
Operating Systems
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • Red Hat
  • NetBSD
Databases
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Percona MySQL
  • MongoDB
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